Trauma-informed somatic therapy & coaching in the Northern Rivers
Relational, nervous system-focused therapeutic coaching for sensitive, visionary women ready to move beyond old survival patterns — with Somatic Experiencing®, womb work, breathwork and somatic touch
You’ve done the inner work. You understand your patterns. And you can feel a bigger life pressing to come through you — the work and the love you know you’re here for.
Yet in the moments that matter, you still hold back or lose yourself in connection.
You’re standing at a threshold, and your body is asking for something deeper than insight.
Maybe you know these moments…
It may feel like you’ve been shedding skins for years
You are in the right place if …
You are high-functioning, sensitive, and deeply perceptive — but notice how your system defaults to people-pleasing, control, withdrawal, or over-responsibility when closeness or desire arises
You might find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, or constantly on edge —
or going numb, shutting down, or disconnecting from yourself when things become too muchYou long for real intimacy and emotional depth and are done with push–pull dynamics, polarity games, or performing a version of yourself to be loved
You sense you are here for something larger — your own work, your voice, your way of leading or creating — but every time you try to step toward it, something in your body holds you back. You know it is not a strategy problem.
Your voice, sensuality, creativity, and power want to be fully alive — but shame, inhibition, or self-protection still live in your body
You are moving through a time of transition — where old ways of relating no longer fit, and something new is not yet fully formed
You’ve already tried to understand and shift your patterns cognitively —
but something still isn’t changing, and you’re ready for deeper somatic work that takes your nervous system and attachment patterns on board
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IN THE PAST MY WORK HAS SUPPORTED CLIENTS TO
→ Shift how they show up in relationships: letting go of people-pleasing, power struggles and shutting down, and learning to stay connected to themselves while trust, desire and emotional depth grow again
→ Work through developmental and relational trauma, including PTSD and C-PTSD: moving from chronic anxiety, numbness or hyper-independence into embodied safety and a deeper capacity for connection
→ Release sexual shame and dissociation: reclaiming pleasure and erotic aliveness after abuse, medical or birth trauma, pregnancy loss, abortion or years of self-suppression
→ Move out of burnout and over-functioning: restoring nervous system capacity and building a life and work that no longer require self-abandonment
→ Interrupt intergenerational and patriarchal conditioning: loosening inherited patterns of compliance and self-erasure, so change ripples through their relationships, family and work
→ Reclaim their voice and creativity: moving from self-censorship and the fear of being “too much” into clear boundaries and grounded, embodied truth
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The foundation of real, embodied change lies in your body
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You don’t need to try harder or understand yourself better.
This work meets attachment patterns, people-pleasing, control, withdrawal, and emotional shutdown at the level where they were formed — in the body and nervous system — so change doesn’t rely on willpower or self-management. -
Here, connection is not created through adapting, fixing, or holding everything together.
You learn how to stay present with yourself while staying in relationship — so boundaries, desire, vulnerability, and truth can exist without collapse, over-functioning, or distance. -
Art of Connection weaves together established trauma therapy and neuroscience (Somatic Experiencing®, attachment-oriented and polyvagal approaches) with embodied and feminine practices (womb work, somatic breathwork, traditional tantra, yoga therapy).
The work is held in a longer-term relational container because nervous system and attachment repair require depth, pacing, and continuity — not intensity or shortcuts.
This is what allows integration to land emotionally, relationally, and creatively, rather than fading once the experience ends.
How this work unfolds
01 — Nervous System
Safety & Capacity
Everything begins in the body.
We start by restoring nervous system safety and capacity, meeting survival patterns exactly where they were formed — below conscious control.
As your system learns that closeness, desire, and visibility are no longer dangerous, emotional resilience grows.
You move out of chronic survival responses and into a felt sense of safety, presence, and inner steadiness.
02 — Relating & Repair
Connection without self-abandonment
From inner safety, we work directly with emotions, attachment and relational dynamics. Old patterns around people-pleasing, control, withdrawal, or over-responsibility can reorganise.
You learn to stay connected to yourself while being in connection with others — allowing clear boundaries, honest needs, and real intimacy to coexist.
03 — Embodiment
Expression, aliveness, truth
As the nervous system and relational field stabilise, your full aliveness becomes available again — not as something you perform, but as something you inhabit.
Creativity, sensuality, voice, pleasure, and leadership emerge from the body — capable of being seen and taking up space.
From here, you no longer live from coping or compliance, but from embodied truth — building relationships, work, and a life that actually reflect who you are.
How to work with me
Sessions are available:
Online or In person in the Northern Rivers
In English or German
Each session is 60 or 90 minutes and held in a focused, somatic and relational field
In-person sessions can include trauma-informed somatic touch (consent-based, fully clothed), womb-centred bodywork or breathwork — depending on what your system invites
Breathwork
Conscious, connected breathing helps you move beneath the mind, into feelings and energy that have been held tight for a long time. You lie down and I guide you through the whole journey. Emotion, tears, laughter or trembling may come, and we let them move somatically. Afterwards we take time to integrate, so you leave grounded. I draw on my training in rebirthing breathwork and pace each journey to your system.
Somatic Experiencing®
My SE work is relational and attachment-centered. Many of our deepest patterns were formed in our earliest relationships, so that’s where we meet them, slowly and in doses your system can integrate. With parts work, we get to know the parts of you that learned to please, protect or hide. Your body learns it’s safe to stay yourself in connection.
Womb-centered bodywork
Our womb holds what we often can’t say: shame, grief, old hurts around sexuality and loss, and the patterns passed down through the women in our family. In womb work we bring breath, awareness, sound and touch to the belly and pelvis, so what’s been held can soften and move. Many women find their pleasure, their intuition and their creative life-force return from there. My work is rooted in teachings from Mexican and Guatemalan medicine women and the Munay-Ki Rite of the Womb.
Somatic Touch (fully clothed)
Some patterns formed before we had words, and words alone don’t reach them. Supportive touch can help your nervous system feel held and settle in a way talking can’t. It’s especially powerful for attachment wounds and for women who’ve always been the one holding everyone else. Touch is always an invitation: we agree on it beforehand and you can change your mind at any moment.
Pricing & Packages
SINGLE SESSION
60 minutes · 220 AUD
90 minutes · 330 AUD
To feel the work in your body, drop in when life calls for it, or meet a specific moment with full presence. For breathwork and womb work, I recommend 90 minutes, so your system has time to land and integrate.
MONTHLY PACKAGE
4 × 60-minute sessions · 800 AUD per month
Weekly sessions with steady, ongoing support while we work with one theme or pattern. The weekly rhythm gives your nervous system time to integrate between sessions while staying connected to the process.
3 MONTHS
10 × 60-minute sessions · 1,900 AUD
[Payment plan: 3 × 650 AUD]
The deepest container, for rewiring attachment and relational patterns at the root. Ten sessions over three months, at a pace that leaves room for integration, your cycle and your life.
My work weaves together my expertise and training in:
Somatic Experiencing® & Trauma processingPolyvagal theory & nervous system repairAttachment-focused psychotherapy & counsellingTranspersonal counselling & humanistic psychologySomatic Touch (consent-based, titrated)Dance & movement therapyRebirthing breathworkWomb-centEred embodiment workTraditional Tantric (Kashmir Shaivism) & Yogic practicesShamanic Medicine work
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daniela’s story ♡
“A session with Clara can change your entire life.”
When I came to Clara, I was in the middle of an emotional breakdown — traumatised, uprooted, and full of fear. I had tried conventional therapy before, but it never truly moved anything. With Clara, it was different.
In just one session, I was able to release a toxic attachment I had held onto for three years. Something shifted deeply inside me. Suddenly, there was peace. No more pain. No more resentment. And I realised: I can give myself what I had been desperately seeking from others. That was liberation.
Clara’s work goes deep — and it works. I feel safe in my body again, connected to my intuition, grounded, clear, and powerful. I now know who I am, what I want, and that I can trust myself.
This work changed my life. Truly.
— Daniela W.
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sabines story ♡
“This was the most important and best investment in myself I have ever made.”
Through working with Clara, I feel like myself again. I feel connected, aligned, and able to live my purpose. I feel safe in my body and capable of meeting any challenge.
I was able to release so many old patterns and integrate past trauma. I never imagined this kind of change could be possible in just three months.
I have regained my joy for life, and I feel empowered to actively shape my life and live my dreams.
My relationships have reached a new level of intimacy, because I am now able to express my feelings, needs, and boundaries with clarity.
Thank you, Clara, for your profound work. I truly feel like a new person — and fully myself again.
— Sabine R.
Get to know me
I’m Clara — a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, trauma therapist and embodiment mentor working at the intersection of nervous system healing, attachment, and emotional depth.
I support deeply feeling, intuitive and high-capacity women — including practitioners and spaceholders — who are done shrinking themselves for love, belonging, or success.
My own path taught me to stop hiding my too much — my depth, emotions and longing for intimacy — and to reclaim my aliveness through my body & feeling.
I midwive women to restore safety in their bodies, reclaim intimacy without self-abandonment, and step back into the truth, power and aliveness they were never meant to lose.
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“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves
This IS for you if…
✓ You’ve done the inner work — and are ready to embody it.
You want your truth, desires, and boundaries to become lived, not just understood.
✓You take responsibility for your patterns and your life.
You’re willing to meet your nervous system honestly and choose differently from embodied knowing.
✓ You are a deeply sensitive, creative woman ready to take up space.
You’re done shrinking or performing — and ready to live from presence, truth, and self-trust.
This is NOT for you if…
X You’re looking for change without engaging in a deeper process of self-responsibility and reflection.
X You prefer to stay on the level of understanding, rather than working with the body, emotions, and nervous system directly.
X You are currently in an acute crisis or need immediate psychological support — in this case, working with a clinical psychologist may be more appropriate.
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No. In Australia, Medicare rebates are only available through Clinical Psychologists and some other eligible allied health providers under a Mental Health Care Plan.
The Australian Psychological Society’s recommended fee for a standard 46–60 minute psychology session is currently around AUD 318.
The Medicare rebate for a 50-minute session with a clinical psychologist is approximately AUD 145.25, leaving a significant out-of-pocket cost.In addition, Medicare rebates are limited to only 10 sessions per year. Ongoing work beyond this is charged at full fee.
Highly specialised, trauma-informed practitioners in Australia typically charge AUD 150–350 per session, depending on training and scope of work.
While this work may be more expensive in the short term, many clients experience it as a long-term investment — reducing the need for repeated one-off sessions, temporary relief, or cycling through different providers and instead working at the root of their issues.
Many clients report significant shifts within 5–10 sessions, often describing the work as more impactful than years of talk therapy.
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This work is somatic therapeutic mentorship — held with the rigour of clinical trauma therapy, and the directional clarity of mentorship.
I am registered in Germany as a licensed psychotherapy practitioner (Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie) and have over five years of training in somatic and attachment-based modalities (Somatic Experiencing®, attachment-focused psychotherapy, IFS, depth psychology, womb work, traditional tantra).
What this means in practice: we work with the nervous system, attachment patterns, and body history with full clinical depth — and we move forward together. We don't only explore the past or analyse patterns. We work with what is, with what is becoming, and with what you are here to do. The relationship is the work. The direction is part of the work.
This is not basic make-you-feel-better therapy. It is also not performance coaching, mindset coaching, or strategy coaching. It is something else: a held, directional container for the woman who is done with surface-level coaching, stuck-in-the-past therapy, and ready for deeply powerful, aligned work that creates lasting change.
While the work may include elements that feel coaching-like — such as integration, reflection and orienting toward what wants to emerge — it is not performance or mindset coaching.
What I integrate from coaching is direction and embodiment:
We don't only explore the past or analyse patterns, but work directly with the nervous system so change becomes felt, lived and sustainable.The focus is on nervous system repair, relational safety and embodied capacity — allowing you to not only understand what you want, but to feel safe enough to live it.
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Yes — many clients work with me online, and find it deeply effective.
Being in the comfort and familiarity of their own home often allows for greater nervous system settling, safety and integration, especially for attachment and trauma work.
In-person sessions (offered in Mullumbimby / Byron Bay / Northern Rivers) offer an additional layer of co-regulation through presence, embodied work and, where appropriate, somatic touch.
Touch-based work, womb-centred practices and ceremonial elements are only offered in person, always with clear consent and pacing.Both formats are held with the same depth, attunement and therapeutic integrity.
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This work is for you if you’re done analyzing and understanding your patterns, but not seeing the change in your life and relationships. You’re done with just thinking positive, manifesting your dream life through affirmations or doing deep cathartic healing work that feels exhausting and like a full-time job.
Maybe you sense that your challenges are not a mindset issue, but rooted in attachment, trauma and nervous system patterns — and you are ready to meet them in the body, not just through insight.
It is suited for women who are willing to commit to depth, nuance and a longer-term process, and who feel ready to take responsibility for real change.
If you are seeking crisis support, quick fixes or purely cognitive input without taking action, this may not be the right space.
If you feel to work together but still have questions, a free Connection Call is the natural next step — we sense fit together, without pressure. You can book yourself in here: https://calendly.com/clara-malzer/connection-call -
Somatic Experiencing® (SE), developed by Peter A. Levine, is a body-based, trauma-informed approach working directly with the nervous system.
While originally known for addressing survival responses, contemporary SE integrates attachment theory, developmental trauma work and polyvagal principles.
Rather than reliving trauma, confronting or “discharging” it, SE supports the nervous system to restore safety, capacity and relational regulation — allowing attachment patterns, emotional responses and self-perception to reorganise from the inside out.
The work is slow, relational and titrated.
Change emerges as the body learns it no longer has to protect against closeness, emotion or aliveness.
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